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• When Schools Brainwash Students: Thought Police on University Campuses

  
  LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH — Authority: 136
  This video illustrates a year-long resident life orientation program at the University of Delaware to teach students that America is a racist, hellish place. This attempt to destroy the freedom of thought is growing at American colleges. Check out this video and then check out FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights ...
  23 hours ago

• Capitalism: The Only Moral Social System

  
  Principles in Practice — Authority: 416
  Craig Biddle’s talk Capitalism: The Only Moral Social System , given at Universidad Francisco Marroquín on October 28, has been posted to UFM’s website and is accessible for free. Enjoy!
  6 days ago

• Deficits DO matter.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  The $60 trillion in total public/private is already enough to drown this economy. Not a penny remains for the OTHER $70 trillion (or so) in “unfunded liabilities” which are NOW starting to come due with the retirement of the “baby-boomers”. It was economic heresy, and simply poor arithmetic for U.S. ...
  1 week ago

• Heather Ellis Against The Police State

  
  Barely A Blog — Authority: 131
  “Liberty is a simple thing. It’s the unassailable right to shout, flail your arms, even verbally provoke a politician [or a policeman], unmolested. Tyranny is when those small things can get you assaulted, incarcerated, injured, and even killed. Evidence of tyranny in America is mounting” ( “Tasers ‘R’ ...
  1 week ago

• Waiver of the Principles of Natural Justice under excise laws

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 452
  Once it is found that “Right to Natural Justice” is a “personal & individual right”, the person concerned can always waive such right. But the moot question is “whether principles of natural justice are personal individual rights?” This paper... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
  1 week ago

• Run Away

  
  Coyote Blog — Authority: 651
  General rule of thumb — when your leaders attempt to convince you that choice and individual liberty are bad for you , run away.  They are not really interested in your well-being.
  1 week ago

• Arkansas 10-Year-Old Won’t Pledge Allegiance Until Gays Gain Equality (Wants to be lawyer)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Fairness in this case is more than a mere abstraction, since the family has a number of openly gay friends and has participated in GLBT equality events such as Pride parades. Will, who told the newspaper that he would like to pursue a career in law when he’s older, could not square the tenets of the pledge with the ...
  1 week ago

• Bob McDonnell on Liquor Stores: Right Direction, Wrong Reason

  
  Principles in Practice — Authority: 416
  According to a recent article in the Washington Post , newly elected governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell submitted a proposal to privatize state-run liquor stores. While we should applaud McDonnell’s push toward privatization, we should condemn his reason for the push as wrong . In Virginia the only ...
  1 week ago

• Bruce Bartlett, May Your Chains Set Lightly Upon You

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 544
  Ezra Klein quotes approvingly from Bruce Bartlett’s new book, The New American Economy: The Failure Of Reaganomics And A New Way Forward : The reality is that even before spending exploded to deal with the economic crisis, the government was set to grow by about 50 percent of GDP over the next generation just ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Source and Nature of Rights, Part I

  
  Principles in Practice — Authority: 416
  The video of part one of Craig Biddle’s six-hour seminar, The Source and Nature of Rights , has been posted to the website of Universidad Francisco Marroquín. In this first hour, Mr. Biddle surveys common theories of rights—from God-given rights to man-made rights to so-called “natural” ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Congress, Ignorance is Strength

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 152
  by Edward Cline, 11/14/09I open this commentary with the introduction to my previous commentary, “The Mainstream Smearing of Ayn Rand.” The disparity in subject is not so irrelevant as one might presume, but I won’t dwell on that matter. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi looked like a deer caught in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Qualifying for Civil Rights

  
  A Feather Adrift — Authority: 128
  One thing you can surely count on these days, is that the great slavering beast that is the ultra right, will turn on a dime to attack the latest media subject favorite of the day. The dripping canines are all too happy to release their hold on health care reform rhetoric in favor of biting into the new kid on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead Of The Modern Libertarian Movement

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 544
  There are few figures in the American libertarian movement that gave rise to as much controversy or passion as Ayn Rand. Love her or hate her, it’s hard to find a libertarian who doesn’t have an opinion about the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. For many of us, she was the one who lit the spark ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ludwig Von Mises Finally Getting Some Of The Respect He Deserves

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 544
  When Ludwig von Mises first arrived in the United States after escaping from Nazi Europe, and pretty much up until the present day, he was essentially ignored by the mainstream economics community in the United States. It was only through the assistance of American businessmen that he was able to get a job ...
  2 weeks ago

• Our Rights are Threatened by All These New Rights

  
  Coyote Blog — Authority: 651
  I have shared before the main problem with all these new fake “rights”  (e.g. right to healthcare, right to a job, etc.).  Our original Constitutional rights were merely checks on government – they said the government could not pass laws to prevent us from doing certain things or invade our homes without some ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lin Gilberts Rationing Story

  
  Principles in Practice — Authority: 416
  Canadian Lin Gilbert tells of the wait she endured for over two years for her MRI and spine surgery, and the toll it took on her life: In Canada, health care is never truly a "right". She was repeatedly told that she hadnt suffered for long enough to receive the surgery she needed, and that older ...
  2 weeks ago

• Good News at the TSA

  
  Coyote Blog — Authority: 651
  Via Popehat: The new rules, issued in September and October, tell officers “screening may not be conducted to detect evidence of crimes unrelated to transportation security” and that large amounts of cash don’t qualify as suspicious for purposes of safety. NFL players – its safe now to carry your ...
  2 weeks ago

• Not Good

  
  Coyote Blog — Authority: 651
  From CBS News , Via Matt Welch : In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Life, Liberty, and…Health Care?

  
  The Undercurrent — Authority: 104
  Countless voices are claiming medical care is a right. Is it?Throughout the health care debate, Republicans and Democrats have argued over many points, such as which kinds of reforms would most effectively give all Americans access to health care and how much we should be willing to spend on such programs. Very few, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Our Foreign Policy Seems to Consist Solely of Figuring Our Ways to Hand People Over to Tyrants

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 603
  When this man is executed, it will be, in part, our fault.Earlier this month, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a self-described “Muslim Zionist,” traveled to the U.S. to address audiences... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 weeks ago

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